5-letter words containing b, l
- ebola — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- elbow — The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
- erbil — a city in N Iraq: important in Assyrian times. Pop: 870 000 (2005 est)
- fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
- fhlbb — Federal Home Loan Bank Board
- flabs — flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
- flubs — a blunder.
- flyby — the flight of a spacecraft close enough to a celestial object, as a planet, to gather scientific data.
- ft-lb — foot-pound
- gabel — (UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
- gable — (William) Clark, 1901–60, U.S. film actor.
- galba — Servius Sulpicius [sur-vee-uh s suhl-pish-uh s] /ˈsɜr vi əs sʌlˈpɪʃ əs/ (Show IPA), 5? b.c.–a.d. 69, Roman emperor a.d. 68–69.
- gibel — a carp of Europe and N Asia
- glbtq — relating to lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers (and/or those questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation): LGBTQ rights.
- gleba — the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
- glebe — Also called glebe land. Chiefly British. the cultivable land owned by a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.
- gleby — clod-like
- glibc — GNU C Library
- glibs — Plural form of glib.
- globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
- globs — Plural form of glob.
- globy — round; globular
- glubb — Sir John Bagot [bag-uh t] /ˈbæg ət/ (Show IPA), ("Glubb Pasha") 1897–1986, British army officer: commander of the Arab Legion in Jordan 1939–56.
- hable — Obsolete form of habile.
- haleb — Aleppo
- hibol — (language) A variant of DIBOL, used in Infotec computers. HIBOL was considered to be a very high level language and significantly easier to maintain than COBOL. It uses a single type of data object, called a flow, which is an indexed stream of data values. Computation is expressed as operations acting on flows.
- hubel — David, 1926–2013, U.S. neuroscientist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1981.
- hubli — a city in W India, in NW Mysore: incorporated with Dharwar in 1961; educational and trading centre. Pop (with Dharwar): 786 018 (2001)
- iblis — an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the wicked jinn.
- iqbal — Muhammad, 1873–1938, Pakistani poet.
- irbil — a town in N Iraq: built on the site of ancient Arbela.
- jabal — a son of Lamech, and the progenitor of nomadic shepherds. Gen. 4:20.
- jebel — (chiefly in Arabic-speaking countries) a mountain: often used as part of a placename to indicate that the place is situated on or near a mountain: the Djebel Druze of southern Syria.
- jubal — son of Lamech and Adah: the progenitor of musicians and those who produce musical instruments. Gen. 4:21.
- kabul — a republic in central Asia, NW of India and E of Iran. 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km). Capital: Kabul.
- keble — John, 1792–1866, English clergyman and poet.
- kibla — the point toward which Muslims turn to pray, especially the Kaʿba, or House of God, at Mecca.
- klebs — Edwin [ed-win;; German et-veen] /ˈɛd wɪn;; German ˈɛt vin/ (Show IPA), 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.
- kolbe — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1877–1947, German sculptor.
- l bar — angle iron (def 2).
- laban — the father of Leah and Rachel and the father-in-law of Jacob. Gen. 24:29; 29:16–30.
- label — a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
- labia — plural of labium.
- labis — a spoon used to give the Eucharist to communicants
- labor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- labov — William, born 1927, U.S. linguist.
- labra — a lip or liplike part.
- lambs — Plural form of lamb.
- lamby — Resembling or characteristic of the meat of a lamb.
- layby — Alternative spelling of lay-by.